Officials from the Savona Customs office have identified a trader company based in Turin which, over the course of a very short period of time, extracted large quantities of diesel from a tax warehouse in Savona without paying the excise duty due.
The company would not have paid the excise duty, which amounts to almost half of the final sales price, making the customer pay for the goods at market cost and pocketing the difference.
But the tax warehouse, which is a physical place where energy products such as diesel, petrol and oil are stored, is controlled in all its movements by customs officials who have not even missed this illicit operation.
The agents therefore ordered the owner of the tax warehouse, where the residual part of the product is still stored today, not to allow further extractions and started the procedures for the recovery of the evaded tax, which was subsequently paid directly by the owner of the tax warehouse, which paid the Treasury more than one million euros in excise duty as well as administrative penalties of 300 thousand euros: resources already confiscated by the Savona Customs Office and available to the State.
This is a silent activity in which customs officers monitor the position of traders operating in the provincial area or, of those commercial operators who, not having their own tax warehousing structure, make use of facilities (authorised for tax warehousing) owned by third parties, who are primarily responsible for the payment of taxes due. Carrying out this type of checks requires considerable analytical capacity and attention, allowing the achievement of a high level of tax protection by identifying tax evaders with “surgical” precision.
One of the main sectors in which this control action is made explicit is that of excise duties which, at provincial level, determine a total tax revenue of approximately 350 million euros for energy products intended for fueling alone (consisting mainly of diesel and petrol).
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